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Is there a deal on this planet as good as Amazon Prime?

 

The USPS loses money. It's a shitshow -- even with Amazon's business.

This idea that the USPS should be revenue-neutral, or better, is a scam. It's a government service, one I think works pretty dam well. If it has to be subsidized ti insure a high standard of performance across the country, so be it. Far better to spend money doing that, and to get some actual bang from our taxes, than nation-building in the Middle East or some of the other nonsense we spend billions on.

 

The USPS is not an agency on paper, but it still must comply with what Congress decrees, which is why it never initiates possible cost control measures like canceling Saturday delivery or closing smaller, superfluous post offices (in one town on Cape Cod I visit, there are five separate post offices for a permanent population of 6000. In my Boston suburb, population 36,000, there's one office). It's measured like a business, but not allowed to be run like one. In any event, Amazon is one of its best customers, probably the best. Trump has been told this more than once, but in one ear out the other, since there's nothing in between to stop it.

 

What is the cause ratio of trump’s anti amazon tweets? 35 percent wash post article that morning, 40 percent Melania getting a pack of depends diapers delivered for him via amazon prime that morning, 10 percent not liking the amazon rain forest, 15 percent fox and friends?

 

He doesn’t like it when people are richer and more successful than he is.

 

All countries have postal services. They all lose money. They are government services. They're not supposed to be profitable. We don't expect the Agriculture (let alone Defense) Department to break even.
Fun fact: The only postal service to be profitable on mail alone (some also have telecom monopolies attached) was that of the Confederate States of America.

 

Actually Congress has a Constitutional mandate to fund the USPS. Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 gives Congress the power and the responsibility: “To establish Post Offices and post Roads.” Doesn't sound like an independent agency to me. Sounds like the Founding Fathers felt it was a pretty important government agency that should be funded by taxpayer money.

Yes, there probably are efficiencies that could be instituted. I'm not sure elimination of Saturday mail is a smart thing, especially since the PO is often closed for Monday holidays and going three days with no mail service would be inconvenient to many, and the fact there are still six POs in your Cape Cod neighborhood is probably attributable to the economic status and piolitical clout of those zip codes.

Forcing the USPS to prefund its future healthcare benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years, another piece of W's brilliant legacy, is stupid.

The USPS is one government agency that does a pretty darn good job. As Gee said, it's a service. Any money "loaned" to it to insure its survival is money well-spent, IMHO, and far preferable to wasting trillions and trillions of dollars, on Middle Eastern nation building that has already cost of thousands of lives and will cost us billions in future medical bills over the next 75 years.

 

I'm guessing Trump doesn't own any Amazon stock.

 

Today's Bible Study is from the Book of
Revelations, chapter "People Got Conned" ...

"It is obvious God changed his heart.
He wants to be the most praying president ever."

 

I am going to read Crying of Lot 49 again.